It’s almost hard to believe how tone-deaf this candidate really is. And then he says this:
“You know, I think it’s fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms,” but the President ought not to be taking such a “divisive,” “envy-oriented” approach.
Because you never apologize for America, right Mitt? Congratulations, GOP. You get the candidate you deserve.
Via Andrew Sullivan, Dan Amira expects this message to flop:
This is not a gaffe, really, just a particularly stark reflection of Romney’s true beliefs as he’s repeatedly expressed them. Still, it’s a ballsy way to handle issues of income–power inequality, particularly when he’s already being portrayed as an unfeeling, opulently wealthy corporate monster by Democrats and Republicans alike. And Romney might soon find that the 77 percent of Americans (including 80 percent of independents) who believe there is “too much power in the hands of a few rich people and large corporations” and the 61 percent (including 61 percent of independents) who say that “the economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy” don’t find his ideology very relatable.
